The historical background diverges from reality around 1824, when it is imagined that Charles Babbage succeeded with his Difference Engine and went on to develop the Analytical Engine.

He then left school and went to sea, but later in life had become sufficiently self-educated to associate with some of the greatest scientists and applied mathematicians of his time, including Herschel, Airy, and Babbage.

The comic is based on thorough research on the biographies and correspondence between Babbage and Lovelace, which is then twisted for humorous effect.

* Georgia on My Mind is a novelette by Charles Sheffield which involves two major themes: being widowed and the quest for a legendary Babbage computer.

Ada Lovelace reported in her notes on the Analytical Engine: " Mr. Babbage believes he can, by his engine, form the product of two numbers, each containing twenty figures, in three minutes ".

The parish register of St. Mary's Newington, London, shows that Babbage was baptised on 6 January 1792, supporting a birth year of 1791.

In 1822, Charles Babbage proposed the use of such a machine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 June entitled " Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables ".

In 1823, the British government gave Babbage ₤ 1700 to start work on the project.

The other issue that undermined the government ’ s confidence in the difference engine was Babbage had moved on to an analytical engine.

In 1833, Charles Babbage moved on from developing his difference engine ( for navigational calculations ) to a general purpose design, the Analytical Engine, which drew directly on Jacquard's punched cards for its program storage.

* 1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled " Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables ".

* SC34 Committee Records, Charles Babbage Institute – Collection on the development of SGML and other standards influential in the development of current XML tools ; documents include early drafts of SGML administrative materials, documentation, working group papers, and standards for computer languages.

Mary Boole claimed profound influence ( via her uncle George Everest ) of Indian thought on Boole, as well as Augustus De Morgan and Charles Babbage:

Think what must have been the effect of the intense Hinduizing of three such men as Babbage, De Morgan, and George Boole on the mathematical atmosphere of 1830-1865.

* Babbage ( Technology ) — named for the inventor Charles Babbage, this column was established in March 2010 and focuses on various technology related issues.

* Neil R. Lincoln with 18 Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) engineers on computer architecture and design, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

Since 1824, Indian logic attracted the attention of many Western scholars, and has had an influence on important 19th-century logicians such as Charles Babbage, Augustus De Morgan, and particularly George Boole, as confirmed by his wife Mary Everest Boole who wrote in an " open letter to Dr Bose " titled " Indian Thought and Western Science in the Nineteenth Century " written in 1901 < ref >

* Oral history interview with William Norris at the Charles Babbage Institute focuses on his ERA years and formation of CDC

Sabine's appointment was violently attacked by Charles Babbage, the father of the computer, ( largely on account of his associations with the Royal Society, whose scientific credentials Babbage did not recognise ) in a pamphlet entitled Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of its Causes.

In 1991, the London Science Museum built a complete and working specimen of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, a design that incorporated refinements Babbage discovered during the development of the Analytical Engine.

In the Babbage design, one iteration i. e. one full set of addition and carry operations happens once for four rotations of the crank.

With a few trivial changes, it works exactly as Babbage designed it and shows that Babbage's design ideas were correct, merely too far ahead of his time.

* Charles Babbage begins the conceptual design of an " analytical engine ", a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer.

* Charles Babbage begins the conceptual design of an " analytical engine ", a mechanical forerunner of the modern computer.

* Neil R. Lincoln with 18 Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) engineers on computer architecture and design, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

* Neil R. Lincoln with 18 Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) engineers on computer architecture and design, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

* Neil R. Lincoln with 18 Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) engineers on computer architecture and design, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

The recognised excellence of Clement's machine tools and his skill in precision engineering led to him being employed by Charles Babbage in 1823 to work on his project to design and build his mechanical calculating device, the difference engine.

His parents ordered that his " brain was not to be taxed too much " and Babbage felt that " this great idleness may have led to some of my childish reasonings.

Woodhouse did not exercise much influence on the majority of his contemporaries, and the movement might have died away for the time being if it had not been for the advocacy of George Peacock, Charles Babbage, and John Herschel, who formed the Analytical Society, with the object of advocating the general use in the university of analytical methods and of the differential notation.

Considered a " father of the computer ", Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs.

By the time the government killed the project in 1842, they had given Babbage over ₤ 17, 000, more than double the cost of a warship, without receiving a working engine.

Babbage was able to take advantage of ideas developed for the analytical engine to make the new difference engine calculate more quickly while using fewer parts.

In 1837, Babbage described his analytical engine.

Charles Babbage owned one of these portraits ; it inspired him in using perforated cards in his analytical engine.

As chemistry journals emerged throughout the 1820s and 1830s, Charles Babbage developed his " difference engine ," the first step towards the modern computer, in 1822 and his " analytical engine ” by 1834.

It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer ( actually his analytical engine rather than the difference engine ).

Babbage started work on his analytical engine in 1834, " in less than two years he had sketched out many of the salient features of the modern computer.

In Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, Charles Babbage wrote that MacCullagh was " an excellent friend of mine " and discussed the benefits and drawbacks of the analytical engine with him.

In 1842, the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, whom Babbage had met while travelling in Italy, wrote a description of the engine in French.

The world's first computer printer was a 19th century mechanically driven apparatus invented by Charles Babbage for his difference engine.

Nine years later, the Science Museum completed the printer Babbage had designed for the difference engine.

What Babbage did not, or was unwilling to, recognize was that the government was interested in economically produced tables, not the engine itself.

By developing something better, Babbage had rendered the difference engine useless in the eyes of the government.

In 2000, the printer which Babbage originally designed for the difference engine was also completed.

Specifically, Charles Babbage planned to use cards to store programs in his Analytical engine.

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1822: Charles Babbage | Babbage's Difference engine.

* June 14, 1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine.

* July 3 – Charles Babbage publishes a proposal for a " difference engine ", a forerunner of the modern computer for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions.

June 14: Charles Babbage | Babbage's Difference engine.